Google Slides MCP

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A1 Google Slides MCP lets an AI app build and edit Google Slides presentations in plain language. Draft a deck, add and rearrange slides, write and style text, place shapes, images and tables, keep speaker notes, review comments and export the result as PDF or PPTX.

It uses the Google Slides API with your Google account. Everything inside a deck is addressed by explicit object ids, and it makes the limits of the Slides API explicit instead of implying that every presentation task is possible.

• 26 tools. Inspect decks and pages, edit slides, text, shapes, images and tables, manage speaker notes and comments, render thumbnails and export files.
• Edits are atomic. Changes ride the API's batchUpdate: one invalid request voids the whole batch, so a deck is never left half-edited.
• Your Drive stays out of reach. Comments, export and local-image upload use the Drive API strictly for the one presentation file — there are no tools to list, share, rename or delete Drive files.
• Minimal Google scopes. It needs presentations; Drive scopes are required only for local images, comments and export.

Start with a read-only question:

Show me the slides in the quarterly report deck and what's on each of them.

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See it work in a minute

You: List the slides of the Q3 review deck and what's on each one.

Assistant: Shows a compact inventory: every slide's position, layout and elements with their visible text. Nothing changes.

You: Prepare a new slide after the agenda titled “Roadmap”, with the key dates in the body.

Assistant: Shows the target deck, the layout and the proposed text, then asks for confirmation before adding it.

You: Confirm.

Assistant: Adds the slide and fills its placeholders. It does not touch the other slides.

Contents

• Quick start
• What you can ask it to do
• How a presentation changes
• What can change
• Getting access
• Configuration
• Data, limits and background work
• Technical documentation
• Support

Quick start

You need Node.js 20+, a Google account and OAuth credentials from a Google Cloud project with the Google Slides API enabled.

1. Prepare Google OAuth access.
2. Add the server to your AI app.
3. Ask the read-only question above.

codex mcp add google-slides \
  --env GOOGLE_SLIDES_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id \
  --env GOOGLE_SLIDES_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret \
  --env GOOGLE_SLIDES_REFRESH_TOKEN=your_refresh_token \
  -- npx -y @a1-x-tech/mcp-google-slides@latest

codex mcp list

claude mcp add \
  --env GOOGLE_SLIDES_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id \
  --env GOOGLE_SLIDES_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret \
  --env GOOGLE_SLIDES_REFRESH_TOKEN=your_refresh_token \
  --transport stdio --scope user google-slides \
  -- npx -y @a1-x-tech/mcp-google-slides@latest

claude mcp list

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-slides": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@a1-x-tech/mcp-google-slides@latest"],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_SLIDES_CLIENT_ID": "your_client_id",
        "GOOGLE_SLIDES_CLIENT_SECRET": "your_client_secret",
        "GOOGLE_SLIDES_REFRESH_TOKEN": "your_refresh_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-slides": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@a1-x-tech/mcp-google-slides@latest"],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_SLIDES_CLIENT_ID": "your_client_id",
        "GOOGLE_SLIDES_CLIENT_SECRET": "your_client_secret",
        "GOOGLE_SLIDES_REFRESH_TOKEN": "your_refresh_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "google-slides": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@a1-x-tech/mcp-google-slides@latest"],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_SLIDES_CLIENT_ID": "${input:slides_client_id}",
        "GOOGLE_SLIDES_CLIENT_SECRET": "${input:slides_client_secret}",
        "GOOGLE_SLIDES_REFRESH_TOKEN": "${input:slides_refresh_token}"
      }
    }
  },
  "inputs": [
    { "type": "promptString", "id": "slides_client_id", "description": "Google OAuth client ID" },
    { "type": "promptString", "id": "slides_client_secret", "description": "Google OAuth client secret", "password": true },
    { "type": "promptString", "id": "slides_refresh_token", "description": "Google OAuth refresh token", "password": true }
  ]
}

What you can ask it to do

Inspect a deck

• List the slides of this presentation and what's on each one.
• Read the speaker notes for slide 5.
• Render a thumbnail of the title slide.

Build and rearrange slides

• Create a presentation for the Q3 review.
• Add a “Roadmap” slide after the agenda, duplicate the template slide, move the summary to the end.
• Insert an image from a URL or a local file, add a 4×3 table, create a text box or a rounded rectangle with its caption.

Write and polish text

• Put this text into the title placeholder and make the deadline bold and red.
• Replace “Q2” with “Q3” across the whole deck.
• Rewrite the speaker notes of slide 3 to be shorter.

Review and hand off

• List the open comment threads and reply to the first one, resolving it.
• Delete the draft slide we no longer need.
• Export the deck as PDF or PPTX for someone without Google access.

How a presentation changes

1. create_presentation creates a deck with one title slide; only the title is honored at creation.
2. Everything inside a deck — slides, shapes, images, tables — is addressed by object ids. list_slides is the compact inventory to start from before any edit.
3. Edits go through the API's atomic batchUpdate: one invalid request voids the whole batch, so nothing is half-applied.
4. Tool inputs are in points; the API stores EMU (1 pt = 12700 EMU). The server converts both ways.

The Slides API cannot delete, rename or share the presentation file — those are Drive file operations outside this server's scope. It cannot import a theme (only instantiate layouts the deck already has) and cannot anchor a new comment to a specific slide. Export is capped at 10 MB, and thumbnail URLs expire after about 30 minutes.

What can change